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The Use and Misuse of Computers in Education: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Colombia. Impact Evaluation Series No. 29. Policy Research Working Paper 4836
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Barrera-Osorio, Felipe; Linden, Leigh L. – Human Development Network Education, 2009
This paper presents the evaluation of the program Computers for Education. The program aims to integrate computers, donated by the private sector, into the teaching of language in public schools. The authors conduct a two-year randomized evaluation of the program using a sample of 97 schools and 5,201 children. Overall, the program seems to have…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Educational Technology, Computer Uses in Education, Access to Computers